THQ Hold The Last Sermon for Darksiders 2

THQ are really ramping up the anticipation levels for forthcoming hack and slash action title Darksiders 2. Playing as DEATH, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, gamers will continue the story started with WAR in the first Darksiders game.

Now the development team have put together a live action trailer entitled The Last Sermon, where we see Death come to the land of the living to become the hero of mankind – crashing in on a church sermon along the way.

The trailer was released on Machinima in an edited form, but now THQ have put up an uncut, extended version exclusively on the official Facebook page for the game.

Creative Director/Producer Brett Hocker and the Hollywood-based Hammer Creative team spearheaded the new campaign, first conceived and story-boarded the four trailers behind Darksiders II, including three that are fully CGI, along with a highly ambitious, live action trailer book-ended by CGI content. Hammer Creative then retained The Ebeling Group and director Abdel Abonamous to shoot the live action trailer, a highly cinematic piece (running time 2:17) which was filmed on location in Prague earlier this year.

Entitled “Last Sermon,” the live action trailer begins with the scene of an Eastern European city lying in ruin, but with an old church still proudly standing amidst the rubble. Inside the church, actor James Cosmo, star of HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” appears as a Minister, delivering a “last sermon” to his congregants, all of whom stand on the brink of death. “Before the eyes of God, we have been judged…and we have been found guilty,” Cosmo declares, with smoke from his bitter cold breath pouring from his mouth. “Death awaits us all, just as Revelations proclaimed it would.”

We hear the monstrous screams of demons emanating from outside the church, as stained glass windows shatter, a chandelier falls from the ceiling and an enormous cross crashes to the ground. The Minister, reading from the Book of Revelations, screams, “The great day of his wrath has come! And who shall be able to stand!”  Suddenly, an eerie quiet takes hold of the church, until a bloody sword comes shooting through the church’s front door. The Minister peers through the hole left by the sword, and sees their savior – Death – standing as the last defense before an army of demons.  At the end of the piece, we see the logo for Darksiders II and the tagline: “Death Lives.”

Awakened by the End of Days, Death, the most feared of the legendary Four Horsemen, embarks upon a quest to restore mankind, and redeem his brother’s name. Along the way, the Horseman discovers that there are far worse things than an earthly Apocalypse, and that an ancient grudge may threaten all of Creation . . . Can DEATH really become mankind’s savior? Darksiders followed the story of WAR, wrongly accused of starting the apocalypse, on a quest to reclaim lost honor and take revenge on those who wronged him.

Click on the link here to see the new video – The Last Sermon

You can also view the shorter Machinima version below:

Darksiders II is being developed by Vigil Games and published by THQ and will be released for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows PC in August 2012 with a Wii U version to follow later in the year.